Embrown

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  • transitive verb. To make brown or dusky.
  • transitive verb. To darken.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make brown; darken.
  • To make dark or obscure.
  • To grow or become brown; acquire a brownish hue.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To give a brown color to; to imbrown.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make brown or dusky.
  • verb. To become brown or dusky.
  • verb. To darken, make dark.
  • verb. To darken, become dark.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause to darken
  • verb. make brown in color
  • Word Usage
    "Contradictory as it may be, the most earnest advocates of the “White Australia” principle use more than the average quantity of oil, which makes the skin to shine and embrown under the influence of the much-loved sun."
    Hypernym
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    imbrown  
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